Sewing-machine guide.



No. 721,590. I PATENTED 13.24, 1903. A. MBRKEL, L.- B. SANDERS & M. HELLMANN.

SEWING MACHINE GUIDE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST MERKEL, LINA B. SANDERS, AND META HELLMANN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; SAID MERKEL ASSIGNOR TO OLIVE DRUIDING, OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

SEWING-MACHINE GUIDE.

SPECIFICATION fornfing part of Letters Patent No. 721,590, dated February 24, 1903.

Application filed May 29, 1902. Serial No.'109,5 37. (No modeLl T aZZ whom it ma t concern:

1 3e it known that we, AUGUST MERKEL,a citizen of Prussia, Germany, and LINAB.

SANDERS and META HELLMANN, both citizens 5 of the United States, and all residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sewing-Machine Guides, of which the following is a specification.

To The object of this invention is to provide a sewing-machine guide having a certain amount of resilience and adapted to be readily secured in operating position or removed from the machine, a spring-clipbeing used controlledby a screw and said clip carried by an adjustable sleeve having a lateral extension, as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the guide and its fastenings constructed in accordance with our invention, and secured to the stem of the presser-footof a sewing-machine. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same through the center 2 5 of the presser-foot stem. i

In said drawings, A represents the stem of a presser-foot, having the presser-foot B secured to its lower end by means of a screw 19. The sewing-machine guide consistsin part of a rod C, retained in a horizontal position by a clamp or spring-clip D. On one end of the rod C is loosely mounted the tubular boss or sleeve E of the cloth creaser or marker E between a shoulder on said rod C and a nut is upon said rod. The horizontal upper portion of the body of the marker E is rigidly secured to or is made integral with the sleeve E and is extended substantially parallel with the presser-foot B. The body of the marker is thence bent laterally at e topermit it to be extended downwardly at e in front of the presser-foot, and thence substantially horizontally at e at a distance in front of the presser-foot, where it terminates into a pendent cloth-marker 6 having flattened sidesand a blunt knife-edge, which is thus adapted to rest on the cloth operated upon, with the pressure caused by a fiat spring e one end of which is inserted in a slit 0, made diametrically through and lengthwise of the endof the rod C. The opposite end of the spring e is received in a slitted lug ora looped wire e, secured to or projecting from the side of the body E of the marker.

The spring-clip D consists of a rectangular piece of spring metal, as steel, slotted substantially vertically a portion of its length to obtain two upwardly-extended branches d and (1: with a larger perforation in the bottom of the slot for the passage of the rod C, in which it is adjustably clamped by means of a thumb-screw F. Said screw passes freely through a'perforation in the branch (1 and has its screw-th readed portion in engagement with the branch (1 of the clip. To retain said clip ad j ustably secured at a suitable height upon the stem A, one end of a metal strap G is made to inclose three sides of the upper portion of the branch (1, and said strap is made to constitute a sleeve and encircle the stem A, and its other end is brought toward the end first described, and both portions of said strap are secured to the clip D by means of ascrew h passing through them, the thread of the screw being in engagement with a horizontal hole 2' in the clip.

, Having now fully described our invention,

we claim 1. In a sewing-machine guide, the combination of a metal strap having its middle portion bent to constitute a sleeve and its ends bent laterally to partly inclose a clip,

a cloth-marker having the rod C passing through the clip, said clip consisting of a rectangular body vertically slotted constituting two branches, a thumb-screw passing through one of said branches and in engagement with the other, and a clip-retaining screw passing through the ends of the metal strap and in engagement with the clip, substantially as described.

2. In a sewing-machine guide, the combination of a clip-fastener consisting of a metal strap having its middle portion bent to constitute a sleeve and its ends bent laterally to partly inclose a clip, said clip consisting of a body vertically slotted, and a thumb-screw passing therethrough, with a cloth-marker consisting of a rod 0 passing through the slot 1 In testimony whereof we afiix our signato of the clip and having a, slotted end, a tnbutures in presence of two witnesses.

lar boss mounted loosely upon the rod 0 and the body of the marker rigidly secured to said i g i g boss and extended forwardly, and also later- META IfIELLMANN' ally and downwardly, and a fiat spring having one end in the slotted end of the rod 0 Witnesses:

and the opposite end secured to the body of W. B. CANTRELL, the marker substantially as described. KARL EPSTEIN. 

